Wire fence



` (No Model.)

J. 0. WEST.

-WIRB FENCE.

No. 808,024. Patented Nov. 11,l 1884.

i y f/ WITNEssBs/e STATES JOHN OREN W'EST, OF FULTON, KANSAS.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,024, dated November 11, 1884.

Application filed October 5252, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN O. WEST, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fulton, in the county of Bourbon and State of Kansas, have invented certa-in new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare ,that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and i'n which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved wire fence. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the fence under construction, and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

My inventionhas relation to wire fences; and it consists in the improved construction and combination ofparts of a fencehaving posts consisting of doubled rods straddling the fence, and provided with wires secured to their upper and lower ends twisted around the several strands of wire, and having wires twisted around the several strands of wire and secured to posts or plugs in the ground, the former being' placed at elevations of the ground, and the latter being at the depressions of the ground in the line of the fence, as rhereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A indicatev wooden blocks or plugs having preferably spiral and tapering points and secured in the ground in pairs in the line of the fence. These blockshave a bore or recess, B, in their upper ends, and the ends of a doubled bent rod, C, are inserted into the recesses, the rod straddling the fence-wires. The upper end of a wire, D, is secured to the upper doubled end of the post, is wrapped 0r twisted once around each wire strand E of the fence, and has its lower end hanging loose.

F indicates blocks or plugs of a construction similar to the base-plugs for the doubled posts, and the lower end of a wire, G, which is attached at its upper end to the uppermost strand of the fence and wound around each strand, is secured to the upper end of the plug.

II indicates a corner post, which is of the same construction as the straddling posts,with

the exception that one leg is preferably vertical, or nearly so, while the other leg forms an inclined brace for the same, and the wire strands are carried around the vertical leg, being spaced by means of a wire, I, secured to the upper doubled end of the post, wound around each strand of wire, and secured at its lower end to the base-plug of the vertical leg of the post. Spacing-wires J are wrapped around the several strands of the fence in spaces between the posts, keeping the strands at their proper positions.

The fence is constructed by securing one end of the lowermost strand to a rigid post,

K, at its proper distance from the ground, from which post the strand is carried to another rigid post, resting at intervals at its proper distance from the ground upon pegs or notches in the edges of a number of .portable posts, L, having cross-pieces at their lower ends and placed upon the elevations in the line of the fence. The next strand is now placed in the notches of the portable posts at its proper height, being secured at its ends to the rigid posts, Ste.

For the purpose ofspacing the wires at the intervals between the portable posts,bars M,

having notches or pegs at their edges, are hung upon the strands with their notches or pegs, and the base-plugs are nowdriven in, the posts placed in position, straddling the wires, the spacing-wires secured to the posts and wound around the strands, the anchoring-stakes driven into thev ground, and the anchoring-wires wound around the wire strands and secured to the stakes, and the intermediate spacing-wires wound around the wires, the straddling posts being placed upon the elevations of the ground and the anchoring-wires being secured to the stakes at the depressions of the ground, the posts and their wires supporting and raising the strands, while the anchoring-wires draw the strands downward, the number of posts being thus considerably reduced in comparison with fences having the wire strands sel cured exclusively to posts, consequently causing a saving in the space occupied by the fence and in the amount of material to be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States#- In awire fence, the combination of the wire lOO strands, the post-s consisting of doubled bars l In testimony that I claim the foregoing as straddling the Wire strands and placed at elei my own I have hereunto aixed my signature vatious of the ground, spaoing-wires secured in presence of two Witnesses. to the upper doubled ends of the posts and 5 wound around each strand of Wire, and the JOHN OBEN WEST.

anchoring-Wires Wound around each strand of Wire, and secured at their lower ends to plugs Titllesses:

or stakes in the ground at depressions of the JOHN P. JOHNSTON, same in the line of the fence, as and for the l CHARLES F. I-IARRAR.

1o purpose shown and set forth. 

